Prof Mark Weller
Profile
Mark Weller was appointed to the Chair of Energy Materials in 2012. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 1982 a received a D. Phil in 1985. He was appointed to a lectureship position at the University of Southampton in 1985 and promoted to a Chair in 1995.
Mark Weller’s research concerns the synthesis new materials with extended structures, the development and implementation of novel techniques to study their structures, and investigation their functionalities and physical properties (magnetic, optical and electronic), in relation to the determined structural and compositional features. Specific topics include framework structures (covering zeotypes, metal oxoanion structures, fluoride-linked topologies), magnetic materials, energy storage, inorganic pigments and heterogeneous catalysis. He has supervised 48 PhD students to completion of their Ph.D.s and been funded on over 50 major projects by EPSRC, the Leverhulme Trust, the EU and various industrial collaborators, particularly Merck KGaA.
Mark was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Meldola Medal in 1990 and the Hugo Müller Lectureship and Medal in 2008.
Mark is currently Chairman of the Solid State Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is lead co-author of Oxford University Press’s “Inorganic Chemistry” (previously Shriver and Atkins’), the 6th Edition of which will be published in late 2013. Mark has an active outreach program covering the topics of pigment chemistry (“Creating a Colourful Life”) and the materials chemistry of natural minerals (“Materials Rock”).
His major research interests include
- Synthesis and structural characterisation of functional materials
- Energy storage materials, specialist pigments, zeolites and photocatalysts
- Applications of neutron diffraction in structure determination
- Development of functional materials from naturally occurring minerals
- Agrochemical formulation
Publications
Wang, Q., Madsen, A., Owen, J. R. and Weller, M. T., 2013. Direct hydrofluorothermal synthesis of sodium transition metal fluorosulfates as possible Na-ion battery cathode materials. Chemical Communications, 49 (21), pp. 2121-2123.
Armstrong, J. A., Williams, E. R. and Weller, M. T., 2013. Manganese (III) fluorophosphate frameworks. Dalton Transactions, 42 (6), pp. 2302-2308.
Williams, E. R., Leithall, R. M., Raja, R. and Weller, M. T., 2013. Complex anion inclusion compounds: flexible anion-exchange materials. Chemical Communications, 49 (3), pp. 249-251.
Leithall, R. M., Williams, E. R., Weller, M. T. and Raja, R., 2013. Forthcoming. Aerobic oxidation of alcohols using hybrid porous-extruded gold catalysts. ChemSusChem
Williams, E. R. and Weller, M. T., 2013. Hydrothermal synthesis and structural characterisation of [H2DABCO]3[Cu16Cl22] : a new copper(I) chloride framework. CrystEngComm, 15 (1), pp. 31-33.
Keates, A. C., Armstrong, J. A. and Weller, M. T., 2013. Forthcoming. Iron fluorophosphates. Dalton Transactions
Littlefield, B. T. R. and Weller, M. T., 2012. Lightweight nanoporous metal hydroxide-rich zeotypes. Nature Communications, 3, 1114.
Williams, E. R. and Weller, M. T., 2012. A variable-temperature neutron diffraction study of ussingite; a strong asymmetric hydrogen bond in an aluminosilicate framework. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 39 (6), pp. 471-478.
Williams, E. R., Morris, S. A. and Weller, M. T., 2012. Copper (II) fluorophosphates. Dalton Transactions, 41 (35), pp. 10845-10853.
Armstrong, J. A., Williams, E. R. and Weller, M. T., 2012. Cobalt (II) fluorophosphate frameworks. Dalton Transactions, 41 (46), pp. 14180-14187.
Williams, E. R., Morris, S. A. and Weller, M. T., 2012. Copper(II) fluorophosphates. Dalton Transactions, 41 (35), pp. 10845-10853.
Ting, V. P., Henry, P. F., Schmidtmann, M., Wilson, C. C. and Weller, M. T., 2012. Probing hydrogen positions in hydrous compounds : information from parametric neutron powder diffraction studies. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 14 (19), pp. 6914-6921.
Armstrong, J. A., Williams, E. R. and Weller, M. T., 2011. Fluoride-rich, hydrofluorothermal routes to functional transition metal (Mn, Fe, Co, Cu) fluorophosphates. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133 (21), pp. 8252-8263.
Littlefield, B. T. R., Hinde, C. and Weller, M. T., 2011. Structure of the Be(OH)42− anion. Dalton Transactions, 40 (4), p. 782.
Linares, C. F., Simon, C. and Weller, M. T., 2011. Synthesis and characterization of the oxalate cancrinite-type zeolite. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 137 (1-3), pp. 32-35.
Littlefield, B. T. R. and Weller, M. T., 2011. Berylloarsenates : new frameworks, building units and an unusual zeotype. Chemical Communications, 47 (16), pp. 4769-4771.
Kotsapa, E. and Weller, M. T., 2011. Vanadium fluoroarsenates : folding sheets into highly corrugated layers and crystalline arrays of large inorganic tubes. Chemical Communications, 47 (21), pp. 6132-6134.
Williams, E. R., Simmonds, A., Armstrong, J. A. and Weller, M. T., 2010. Compositional and structural control of tenebrescence. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 20 (48), pp. 10883-10887.
Armstrong, J. A. and Weller, M. T., 2010. Beryllosilicate frameworks and zeolites. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132 (44), pp. 15679-15686.
Armstrong, J. A., Friis, H., Lieb, A., Finch, A. A. and Weller, M. T., 2010. Combined single-crystal X-ray and neutron powder diffraction structure analysis exemplified through full structure determinations of framework and layer beryllate minerals. American Mineralogist, 95 (4), pp. 519-526.
Ting, V. P., Henry, P. F., Kohlmann, H., Wilson, C. C. and Weller, M. T., 2010. Structural isotope effects in metal hydrides and deuterides. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 12 (9), pp. 2083-2088.
Ting, V. P., Schmidtmann, M., Henry, P. F., Dann, S. E., Crisp, J. L., Wilson, C. C. and Weller, M. T., 2010. The kinetics of bulk hydration of the disaccharides α-lactose and trehalose by in situ neutron powder diffraction. MedChemComm, 1 (5), pp. 345-348.
Ting, V. P., Henry, P. F., Schmidtmann, M., Wilson, C. C. and Weller, M. T., 2009. In situ neutron powder diffraction and structure determination in controlled humidities. Chemical Communications, 2009 (48), pp. 7527-7529.
Henry, P. F., Weller, M. T. and Wilson, C. C., 2009. Neutron powder diffraction in materials with incoherent scattering : an illustration of Rietveld refinement quality from nondeuterated gypsum. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 42 (6), pp. 1176-1188.
Lieb, A. and Weller, M. T., 2009. NH4 [BAsO4 F] - a new layer fluoro-boroarsenate with a silicate related topology. Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, 635 (12), pp. 1877-1881.
Lieb, A. and Weller, M.T., 2009. NH4[BAsO4F] - A new layer fluoro-boroarsenate with a silicate related topology. Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, 635 (12), pp. 1877-1881.
Kalpana, G. and Weller, M. T., 2009. Rb2Sb4O11. Acta Crystallographica Section E-Structure Reports Online, 65 (6), i41.
Rouse, J. and Weller, M. T., 2009. Cerium(IV) fluoride and fluoride-arsenate frameworks. Dalton Transactions, 2009 (46), pp. 10330-10337.
Rouse, J., Redrup, K. V., Kotsapa, E. and Weller, M. T., 2009. Controlling dimensionality in templated layer, chain and framework structures by combining metal fluorides with oxotetrahedra. Chemical Communications, 2009 (46), pp. 7209-7211.
Redrup, K.V. and Weller, M.T., 2009. Hydrothermal routes to new sodium hydrogen polytungstates. Dalton Transactions, 2009 (23), pp. 4468-4472.
Redrup, K.V. and Weller, M.T., 2009. Synthesis and crystal structures of iron hydrogen phosphates. Dalton Transactions, 2009 (19), pp. 3786-3792.
Kotsapa, E. and Weller, M.T., 2009. [NH4]12[(MoO2)2O(HPO4)2]4[PO4]X, X = Cl, Br - new porous layer molybdenophosphates with embedded multiple anionic and cationic guests. Dalton Transactions, 2009 (3), pp. 418-420.
Galati, R., Simon, C., Knee, C. S., Henry, P. F., Rainford, B. D. and Weller, M. T., 2008. Hydration, structure, and superconductivity of KOs2O6·nH2O. Chemistry of Materials, 20 (4), pp. 1652-1659.
Henry, P. F., Weller, M. T. and Wilson, C. C., 2008. Hydrogenous materials using powder neutron diffraction : full structural determination of adsorbed water molecules in a zeolite. Chemical Communications, 2008 (13), pp. 1557-1559.
Galati, R., Simon, C., Henry, P. F. and Weller, M. T., 2008. Cation displacements and the structures of the superconducting pyrochlore osmates AOs2O6 (A=K, Rb, and Cs). Physical Review B, 77 (10), 104523.
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